Created by Barney Stinson of the series How I Met Your Mother.
The Pyramid of Screaming is a societal rubric that dismisses the parlor tricks of the Chain of Screaming, Scream Ladder, South Beach Screaming, and other methodologies and focuses on the golden rule of scream etiquette: You can only scream beneath you.
The Pyramid of Screaming is a societal rubric that dismisses the parlor tricks of the Chain of Screaming, Scream Ladder, South Beach Screaming, and other methodologies and focuses on the golden rule of scream etiquette: You can only scream beneath you.
To illustrate how it works, here's the scream pyramid for a professional football team:
OWNER
HEAD COACH
ASSISTANT
COACHES
QUARTERBACK
TEAMMATES
PUNTER
The Head Coach can't scream at the Owner, but can scream at anyone else. The Quarterback can scream at his teammates, but not at his coaches. And the Punter screams at no one. He's lucky to have a job.
It's no different inside your office, as exemplified by my own corporate scream pyramid:
CLASSIFIED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BARNEY
V.P. SYNERGY
CLASSIFIED
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you find yourself at the bottom, don't fret. The beauty of the pyramid is that there's always someone available to be the new foundation. The janitorial crew, the sleepy-eyed security man, or anyone who doesn't speak English are great places to start.
Example:
Barney: "Hey! Don't yell at me, remember your place in the Pyramid of Screaming."
OWNER
HEAD COACH
ASSISTANT
COACHES
QUARTERBACK
TEAMMATES
PUNTER
The Head Coach can't scream at the Owner, but can scream at anyone else. The Quarterback can scream at his teammates, but not at his coaches. And the Punter screams at no one. He's lucky to have a job.
It's no different inside your office, as exemplified by my own corporate scream pyramid:
CLASSIFIED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BARNEY
V.P. SYNERGY
CLASSIFIED
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you find yourself at the bottom, don't fret. The beauty of the pyramid is that there's always someone available to be the new foundation. The janitorial crew, the sleepy-eyed security man, or anyone who doesn't speak English are great places to start.
Example:
Barney: "Hey! Don't yell at me, remember your place in the Pyramid of Screaming."
by klwilson April 30, 2008
Any "business" plan that is a scam and completely fake. Usually involves the employee (a.k.a. the sucker) to pay the employer, rather than the other way around. Most notable for the use of the pyramid method of gaining money: you start by suckering one of your friends to dish out his money, then he gets one of his friends to do the same, until all your friends are broke and pissed off at you.
by superhog May 18, 2006
Pyramid Head is a villian from the video game Silent Hill. Silent Hill was later turned into a movie and Pyramid Head is included in it. He carries an 8 foot knife with him wherever he goes. After an air-raid siren is played alarming everyone that he will come out, the only safe place from him is the church.
by Alessa's Promise December 5, 2011
A racial slur for Egyptian
by Kniqqer September 16, 2016
Tony the Tiler says there is a continum that exists whether you are conscious of it or not people rank each other. There is a pyramid that forms from this stream of consciousness. People that are generous go to the top of his list. Take care of these patrons and give them everything you can muster we need to reward them the truly noble of this life
And when you see great work you will see a mirror to a truly noble lord
And when you see crookety fuck tile work ask yourself was the owner of that pile of shit a shit dung beetle
Or did he buy the house with a shit monument
We are all connected angels and demons
MLK says truth prevails in reality
There is a loyalty pyramid
Focus on the positive and give more than you receive reward nobles and one day you might be at the top of the pyramid
And when you see great work you will see a mirror to a truly noble lord
And when you see crookety fuck tile work ask yourself was the owner of that pile of shit a shit dung beetle
Or did he buy the house with a shit monument
We are all connected angels and demons
MLK says truth prevails in reality
There is a loyalty pyramid
Focus on the positive and give more than you receive reward nobles and one day you might be at the top of the pyramid
by Tonythetiler April 16, 2021
Tony the Tiler told me about the loyalty pyramid. He ranks people by their treatment to him. He can communicate to his buds the rank. It even has timeline.
Kinda like what have you done for me lately but adds in intrinsic integrity, down to earth and a willingness to see Tony the Tiler make it to the top of his pyramid.
Which is to be a straight up guy with unquestionable loyalty to his crew.
Kinda like what have you done for me lately but adds in intrinsic integrity, down to earth and a willingness to see Tony the Tiler make it to the top of his pyramid.
Which is to be a straight up guy with unquestionable loyalty to his crew.
by Tonythetiler April 17, 2021
Any form of business proposal in which one pays a fee to begin, and rises up in a pyramid-like form, being given money by people under the original payer. Usually considered a hoax.
See also: wordChain letter/word
See also: wordChain letter/word
by Falconrath October 24, 2003